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The UK’s official inflation rate has hit 4.8%, up on the previous month and its highest rate since September 2008. Driving the rate are big increases, over the year, in
Latest inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics put average price rises in the 12 months to September at 4.2%, its highest rate of growth since November 2011. Back
Good news as the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to once again hold its base rate steady at 0.1%. This comes a day after the US Federal
The UK’s official measure of inflation, the Office for National Statistics’ Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in slightly lower than widely anticipated, falling from 3.0% in August to 2.9% in
Among the most depressing aspects of the latest IPCC report is the predictable lamentations by the usual suspects trotting out platitudes about the last chance to do something to stop
see films clips of authors introducing their chapters in PEF’s book , The Return of the State
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
“After decades of assault by state-shrinking ideologues, a collision of crises has revealed how only the power of good government can save us. Covid, climate catastrophe and Brexit crashed in on a public realm stripped bare by a decade of extreme austerity. Here all the best writers and thinkers on the good society show recovery is possible, with a radical rethink of all the old errors. Read this, and feel hope that things can change. ”
Polly Toynbee
The budget was singularly lacking in ambition when it came to the government’s role in creating a sustainable, inclusive and investment-led recovery.
There was no new green stimulus despite the UK facing a £100bn funding gap to reach its net-zero by 2050 target and despite its hosting of the global COP26 climate change summit this November.
Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones and Dr Natalya Naqvi, write for the blog on the parties’ election pledges on National Investment Banks, making the case that such institutions ought to be pivotal in greening the economy.
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